Quotations About / On: DYING

  • 41.
    Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection, New York (1988).)
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  • 42.
    Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
    (Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian philosopher, author. "Historic Murder," pt. 5, The Rebel (1951, trans. 1953).)
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  • 43.
    The self persists like a dying star,
    In sleep, afraid.
    (Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. Meditation at Oyster River (l. 24-25). . . Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.)
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  • 44.
    Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
    (Andy Warhol (1928-1987), U.S. pop artist. Quoted in Victor Bokris, "Goodbye 1986-7," Warhol (1989).)
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  • 45.
    Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
    (Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British author. First published in 1903. Ernest Pontifex, or The Way of All Flesh, ch. 6, p. 25, Houghton Mifflin (1964).)
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  • 46.
    He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him day by day, and the divine being established.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 243, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 47.
    By-gones are by-gones, as Chartres, when he was dying, said of his sins: let us look forwards.
    (Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Sept. 26, 1758, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl, Esq, 5th ed., vol. IV, p. 156, London (1774). Col. Francis Chartres (1675-1732), a notorious profligate, who was featured in William Hogarth's Harlot's Progress.)
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  • 48.
    The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
    (Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German critic, philosopher. repr. In Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (1968). The Storyteller, sct. 4 (1936).)
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  • 49.
    Lovers, like dying men, may well
    At first disorder'd be,
    Since none alive can truly tell
    What Fortune they must see.
    (Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701), British courtier, poet. The Mulberry Garden (l. 1-4). OBS. Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 50.
    Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
    (Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), British poet, critic. "Sohrab and Rustum," l. 656 (1853).)
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